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Ha. No wonder your PC was crashing! If you're still clocking 88 degrees with the fan running at 100%, you can be absolutely sure it was overheating badly before you turned the fans up.Also an update on this situation:
I could not be bothered opening up my PC to reseat my graphics card today, so installed the MSI Afterburner tool as suggest, and then just set the fan to 100% while running AC. Temp sits at 88deg now while driving, but hasn't conked out the computer yet, so.. that seems to have proven the issue. I'm looking to upgrade my whole PC this year anyways, its not a proper gaming PC, it's just my wife's old office desktop she bought on a whim and decided she would rather a laptop, and it runs games 'reasonably' well so I commandeered it for my makeshift rig haha.
Words I didn't expect to see on here for $500 thanks!![]()
A tip for the future, regardless of what computer you end up using:
Every few months, it's worth taking your PC outside, then opening it up and thoroughly blowing all the dust out, as that can add to overheating woes as well. Also, set up a custom fan profile with Afterburner, so that the fans really start cranking up as soon as you start getting over about 70-75 degrees C. That can really save your bacon financially, instead of cooking it – especially in the hotter period of an Australian summer!
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